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Local residents, public officials and service agencies will all have the chance to weigh in on local housing needs at an upcoming public forum about a federal housing grant program.

Representatives from the Lancaster County HOME Consortium will hold several public meetings across a four-county area, including one at 2 p.m. Aug. 18 in Lancaster City Council chambers, 216 S. Catawba St.

Lancaster Super Speedway will host the Smokehouse 25 on Saturday, Aug. 1.
Headlining the night will be the SECA Crate Late Model Division paying $2,000 to win with a $100 entry, 12 or less cars $150 start, 13 or more cars $200 to start.
Some of the Carolinas top SECA Crate Late Model drivers will compete for the $2,000 payday.
For the 2015 racing season, the SECA Crate Late Model winners list is Steve Banal with two wins; Timbo Mangum, two; Brandy Baker, two; Benji Knight, one and Trent Ivey, one.

Lightning damaged two businesses in the Lancaster Square Shopping Center on Main Street in Lancaster on Thursday night near the end of a short, but vicious thunderstorm that rolled through the area.
Lancaster Fire Department Fire Chief Chuck Small said his department was dispatched from another call to Goody’s and Food Lion just after midnight in response to a report of smoke coming from the front of the department store.

RICHBURG – At it July meeting, Richburg Town Council authorized Mayor James Harris to sign a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Catawba Regional Council of Governments (COG) and its entity, the Catawba Regional Development Corp. to remove blighted properties in the town.

The Indian Land Warriors have been honored by the NFL Carolina Panthers.
The Warriors’ football team, which opens practice today, July 31, is a recipient of the Panthers’ High School Uniform Grant.
“We are honored to be able to provide you with 53 blue practice jerseys worn by Carolina Panthers,” said Peter Vacho, the Carolina Panthers military and outreach manager. “We are pleased to strengthen your already accomplished program.”

RICHBURG – The emergency responders of the Richburg Fire Department were kept busy the weekend of July 10-12, answering calls including fires at a collision between a motorcycle and a car and a structure fire.

The professional manner in which the firefighters responded left Richburg Fire Chief John Agee feeling proud of his crew, he said.

“I’m really proud of everyone at the fire station,” Agee said. “I love every one of them.”

Dr. Brooks Walker’s guest column, “Seek truth: Stop mob from ruling,” in the July 15 edition of The Lancaster News makes clear by illustrious examples his point that “facts have no place in a conversation based on emotion and assumption.”

He further states, “Justice begins with the search for truth...” followed by more vivid illustrations showing that truth is not being sought by those who scream “no justice, no peace.”

There can be no justice without truth. Lady Justice has always been depicted as blind.

On days when he isn’t fulfilling his duties as an elder at First Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church, Thomas “Buddy” Coke Lever puts up American flags for the city of Lancaster.
Lever said he has been putting up the flags for the past four and a half years.
With help from local Scout troops, Lever sets up 126 American and 150 Christmas flags on Main Street 15 times throughout the year.

This year our Legislature met from January to July, extending session beyond even the normal allowance in years past. During that time, 1,336 bills were filed between the House and Senate. Of those, 131 were passed by lawmakers.

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire,” said the Irish poet William Butler Yeats.

In South Carolina, we are spending far too much time trying to fill pails (often with holes in them) and not nearly enough time lighting fires. But the good news is that there is no better fire starter for young minds (or old ones for that matter) than a computer connected to the Internet.

And therein lies a great hope for our state – and there are real reasons to be encouraged.